We I said 10-2 at best and 8-4 in an absolute dumpster scenario prior to the start the year and stick to that - even with the performance tonight.
Heupel was a horrible recruiter here don’t get me wrong and the roster was getting softer each year but that man can coach QBs.
Yes…exactly! I didn’t believe this before but I saw it tonight, couple games last year but thought it was just MK limitations. Naw, he doesn’t need to call plays. Also needs to fire the Sp Teams Coach ASAP. Sounds like he also let players get bullied and sodomized with a pool stick. He’s gotta go…
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I agree with you 100%. JRP is part of the offense, but he is not the QB. He is not a passer. I want to see what a Gus Malzahn offense looks like when he has a QB that can run and throw, ahem TC. Let the kid loose. Let him make his mistakes now. I am willing to give JRP a few more games, but if he can't get a handle of the passing game by week 6, let TC take over and we ride for 3 1/2 years with TC.
And Tenn paid for a real DC. Not ripping on Shannon but that whole situation seemed weird.
That's easier said than done. His backup with Paul Rubelt, who would have been drastically worse. UCF could have moved Sam Jackson to right tackle and inserted Josh Harris at left guard.
It’s hard to asses what Malzahn did or didn’t do at Auburn because his measuring stick is typically having to beat Bama just to play for any hardware. Not to mention LSU. Sure, his strengths and weaknesses can be gleaned from that and I’m pretty certain we all know playcalling is not his strength. Find help with that, and hopefully find a QB…it can overcome lots of faults.
Gus is going to need an exciting OC to call plays. Gus ball ain’t going to cut it. We can bring in all the 4 and 5 star receivers like Johnson, Myers, Hudson, but a 3 star can get it done here with the correct scheme. Heupel took over a UT team with talent issues and has them competitive and good offensively. He has a castoff QB as a Heisman candidate and receivers who were average before on NFL draft boards. His recruiting here did suck, but it’s going to take more than just better recruiting to keep fans excited and engaged about the product.
Yeah. When we fell behind Louisville 28-7 in 2013 or fell 21-0 down to Pitt 2019 we at least had some sense of hope that we had a chance at coming back. Last night after going down 17-14 it felt like an insurmountable deficit. That’s not right for this program.
gus was in the SEC with auburn did that league magically give him players that could overcome his playcalling? or was that conference just too hard and this one is too easy and the big 12 will be just right.
We can’t recruit blue chip linemen necessary for success in traditional offenses. The up tempo no huddle was our bread and butter 2017-2020. It covers up a lot of deficiencies on the line. Deficiencies now being exposed.
Bump 100% agree.
It certainly feels like the more we have gotten away from up-tempo the more we have struggled, probably for a lot of reasons. Of course the Huepel tempo-plus-throwing-bombs-all-the-time had its own problems.
The coaches are teaching what they know. 2018 we were able to transition a little bit until Milton went down. Same in 2021 before DG went down. But these were experienced QBs comfortable in the previous systems. You aren’t going to see coaches teach another coaches system to a new recruit.
Yeah maybe, but for all the millions of dollars we pay these supposed "football geniuses" we hire to be coaches, it seems clear to me that the expectation should be that they design a system around what they have, and what has been shown to work here, with the style of recruiting that works here, rather than the well-this-is-what-I-do kind of thing that we see every time a new coach comes in.
Yes. Each coach will have his own playbook and offensive theory that they teach. There is more to coaching than just looking at a prior year game and running those same plays if they worked.
It's not plays. It's philosophy.
Not sure what you mean. What does a coach adapting have to do with running a previous coaches offense? Like I said if you have veteran players, they will have been taught concepts by a previous staff, but at some point the new coaches have to teach what they know to new players.
We aren’t in ACC. AAC and this is last year in it. So 4 more years for Big 12 DCs to figure him out. Doesn’t matter until we get a good QB anyway. Not being able to score in a half its hard to beat anyone.
When it doesn’t matter what you call because it won’t work anyway, don’t you blame the coaches? It wasn’t Bama. It was UL who gave up 35 to FSU with a backup QB for over a half a game. It doesn’t matter play calls. Coaching them to block and execute matters. Thats not happening.
This exactly. It was evident what the issue was and it is hard to “adapt” in second half when what needed to adapt was the OL. I think they are probably individually good, but 2 transfers may still need time to gel in game with the others. But I also know nothing, however they fix that issue and this team will win a lot of games.
Im with you, it wasnt the plays called it was the execution. Two plays ended in tds called back. Other plays JRP was on his back before play started. One play that should have been called more was a designed rollout to get JRP out of pocket more. This would have given him open looks to receivers or at least allowed him yo make plays with his legs
No ... not in the transfer era, let alone after Heupel's debacle of recruiting and other issues. We're going to let Gus retire from UCF in another decade, just like GOL (and we should have let him go after 2013).
